Pretty bad week overall with no-one getting West Ham winning at Tottenham’s new NFL Stadium and Southampton ending a game 3 a piece or Leicester punishing a miserable Arsenal.
Watching the games this week I felt like the fake-panenka goalkeeper.
Here are the season standings – pre-adjustments. I will add some default picks for those weeks that people missed later. If you missed a game just tell me “Merse or Lawro” and I will set the score.
In an attempt to catch up, here’s the results for the week!
It must be someone’s Birthday this week because clearly everyone scored as few points as possible, Deeney got himself sent off and Ben Foster gifted the Arse a goal.
All in all a decent week for BE! (LJ tied for first but he doesn’t – that I know of – have a Birthday this week so gets honorary second).
So where are we with Week 27? How about Week 31? What about Week 33? I barely know either so let me post the final predictions and the current standings.
Congratulations to LJ and KMFE!
Sorry for the delay in getting results have been distracted by lots of things including
Anyway, I’ve been behind for a long time so need to play catch up. I’m in Fergie “Steve Bruce against Wednesday” Time!
Week 27
Seemingly an age ago there was a week 27 and the last game was finally played and Chelsea beat Huddersfield. Pretty sure that game didn’t change any of the outcomes.
Week 31
There were some other games here – notably Spuds hosting Crystal Palace at their new stadium and Brighton managing to lose at home to Cardiff giving the Welsh a little hope especially with an easy trip to Anfield coming up!
Week 32
Looks like all the games were played! Even wilder, it looks like LJ got a win in there.
Week 33
Looks like all these games were played and well…wouldn’t you know it…KMFE out of nowhere slams down victory so bit that 2nd place was a massive 5 points back- the same total that a JE picked! And who is this SC1?
This week we welcomed back LS and depending on whether you are a glass half-full or a glass half-empty he presented us with the perfect opportunity to take a laugh at his score or prevented us from having another laugh at LJ’s expense!
Prognosticator of the Week AB wins this week because he has the fortune of the letter A coming before J in a UK/US alphabetical sorting order.
This mad rush of games combined with a hectic work schedule make keeping this site up to date more difficult than normal. It also means that I’m probably not as humourous as I would like to be. Here’s a tester joke to see how that theory goes:
Wouldn’t it be funny if Antonio Valencia had played for Valencia, David Villa had played for Aston Villa, and Danny Shittu had played for Spurs?
In real life there’s actually the guy who is his team (almost)
And the results:
Congrats to JE but given how much he claims to know about football (a lot) he should be finishing lower like LJ 🙂 Of course he claims he’s just guessing every week but I know for a fact that you all pore over the stats and make proper educated and calculated projections.
Special Note for LJ: I know I said I would pick Hornets 3-0 over the mighty reds but I’m no fool!
This is one of those annoying Rounds of football that seems to stretch on-and-on. The Cityzens defeated the Toffeemen 2-0 over 2 weeks ago and the Chelsea game is still outstanding. Nonetheless I wanted to update the weekly picks and standing.
Weekly Comments
JE: ” Away this weekend so fingers crossed that we all win again in the family (apart from Tottenham and arsenal). So just me and you then really!! I hope we don’t lose to Liverpool. Would hate that…..” Klopp may rather have been at “Thriller” than watching this “thriller”
KMFE: “Mark this day down in the annals of history: I AM ACTIVELY GOING FOR MANCHESTER UNITED. “ Marked!
BE: ” As I had Man City, Arsenal, Watford and Spurs all down for a win, I thought I had better do the same for Man Utd and hope de Gea is in form” Seems that DDG didn’t need to be in form.
ME: “Need spurs to win!” Tough to keep winning. I am slowly not hating the new offside rule but I hate the new offside rule. How you can stand in the six-yard box by the goalie and not interfere with play is beyond me. I think it’s time someone employed the Inzaghi style of play and just always stands offside preventing that high-line defense. I’m sure Poch is working on it.
That lad must have been born offside.
Sir Alex Ferguson
ME: “Chelsea may or may not turn up… “ I’m guessing not!
Weekly Summary Watford had a good week with Deulofeu scoring the team’s first ever hat-trick in the Premier League. To put into perspective how good that it is, that’s 9% of Aguero’s total!
This weeks Watford survival gauge looks considerably better!
Coca-Cola, Rumbelows, Littlewoods, Milk Carabao Cup Final
Today’s big game was the EFL final between Chelsea and Man Citeh. We expected goals. we got none. We expected Sterling to choke, he didn’t. But nothing was as strange as the ending of an otherwise boring game.
On my last post (2 weeks ago) I forgot to post the picks… and since then my effort in posting updates has been almost Chelski-like.
Sarri: “Well this group of Chelsea players are lazy. They are not going about their work in the right way. “
To solve that problem, Sarri has brought in another former player of his (is this a lazy strategy?). Higuain. A player he looked directly in the eyes at Napoli and said:
“You’re too lazy. If you don’t change your attitude, you won’t become the best centre forward in the world.”
Seems like a perfect fit!
I’m just going to try and do a bit better because I don’t have the money to splash around on a new humorist/writer/blogger/score maintainer!
Results for Last Week
Things are beginning to tighten up at the top as BE is beginning to render the ME/AM rivalry as a fight for distant 3rd and 4th!
Watford are now just a few points from safety as this random chart shows.
Results
Looks like this was a good week for some. Three exacts for BE moved her well to the top of the table…..however, some people like JE seemed to lose his way but he doesn’t care because Man U keep winning!